Introducing one of my best friends, the puncture repair kit. Handy and useful, a life saver in the most unexpected situations, especially combined with a portable air pump.
If you don’t have a pump and the closest servo is not that close, here we go with Mar’s homefix of the day. I know it’s pretty unorthodox as all my crazy ideas, but will give you those extra kilometres you need to get to the service station.
You don’t have spare plugs? Don’t worry, super glue might be your temporary super hero. A tiny super glue dispenser with a thin pointy tip will make it easier.
Identify the puncture, clean the area, mark the puncture with a โ using a pen or a pencil, introduce the tip inside the hole avoiding going all the way through as we don’t want super glue floating between the tyre and the rim, and seal the hole in a way that the polymer gets attached to the puncture edges.
As super glue needs hours to get dry, it will retain as much air as possible inside the tyre and, at the same time, will disappear with friction on your way to the petrol station.
Today this gave me extra 20 km. Once at the servo, I borrowed a plug from a lovely truck driver as I lost my kit in the campground the night before, and finally fixed my puncture! โบ๏ธ
